DHAKA: A coalition of human rights campaigners Tuesday condemned the ‘Vested Property Act’ as contradictory to the UN Human Rights Charter and the national constitution and demanded of the government to introduce the proposed amended law in the next parliament session.The demand came

Dhaka: A two-day Bangladesh Food Security Conference begins here tomorrow (Wednesday) to work out a coordinated investment plan for food security and increased investments for agricultural development.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the conference, organized by an investment

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday again deferred the date for framing charge against detained former State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar in a tax-evasion case, a fallout from the anti-corruption hunt kicked off by the past interim government.Judge Md. Nasir Uddin Mahmud of the

Dhaka: No general diary or case has yet been filed on the fight between a special police squad and Harkat-UL-Jihad (HUJI) militants in the capital’s Jurain area, two days after the nighttime clash. “Neither a case nor a GD was filed till Monday night,” said the investigation officer

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Tuesday framed charge against Jahanara Begum, former Primary and Mass Education Adviser to then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, in a graft case that stemmed from the massive anti-graft drive conducted under the past interim regime. After the indictment, judge Nasir Uddin

COMILLA: A sawmill owner was stabbed to death by some motor mechanics at Kalirbazar in sadar upazila on Monday night following a fracas over the repairing of a motorcycle.The dead was identified as Sohel, 20, of Kalirbar area.Associates of the mechanics also attacked a police vehicle and

DHAKA: Clean-city campaigners Monday urged the government to finalize the ‘Detailed Area Plan (DAP)’ and implement it immediately for building the capital the city in a planned way, as critics call Dhaka a concrete jungle.They also demanded intervention of the Prime Minister in this

DHAKA: Assailants killed a pathway trader in front of the western gate of Baitulmakarram in the city in broad daylight Monday, two days after an arbitration meet for realizing his money from a borrower.   The deceased, Humayun Kabir, 40, from Kutubkhali Nayanagar under Jatrabari Thana

Dhaka: Three state-owned organizations are set to sign an accord for the supply of fuel oils to government, non-governmental and rental power plants, as part of an orchestrated drive to tackle severe electricity crisis in the country.  A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed

DHAKA: Bangladesh won’t skid off the global information superhighway during the repairing of the international submarine cable, experts said to dispel doubts.   Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company authorities Monday gave the assurance, as some national dailies reported that the

Savar: The workers of two garment factories in the Ashulia hub of the export industry Monday went on work stoppage to press home their demands, mainly pay hike.Police said the agitated workers of ‘Setara group’ began the work abstention at noon to realise their 12-point demands,

Comilla: State Minister for Law Kamrul Islam was sued in a lawcourt here Monday for reportedly calling slain president Ziaur Rahman ‘Pakistani char’, set by Islamabad during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war.Ashiqur Rahman Mahmud Wasim, president of the district Chhatra Dal and

DHAKA: Justice Golam Rabbani, well-known for his memorable rulings while in the bench, Monday urged the local-government representatives to wage a ‘second liberation war’ to secure the rights they are denied.  He argued that their jurisdiction is defined in the national constitution

Dhaka: Immigration officials at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport offloaded an Indian transit passenger with a consignment of 480 rare tortoises early Monday.Airport thana police said the immigration officials seized a suitcase, containing the rare species of tortoise, from

DHAKA: Amid a latest tide of bashing women under the edicts of Islamic clerics, the High Court Monday issued a rule asking the government to explain within a week why such extra-judicial punishment through fatwa and Islamic Sharia law “should not be declared illegal”.This incidentally

Dinajpur: Hardrock mining at Maddhyapara halted for a second day Monday as the temporary workers continued their indefinite strike for their job confirmation and payment of salary arrears.The provisional workers hired by Maddhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd (MGMCL) went on strike Sunday

CHITTAGONG: A forest employee who allegedly became a feared felon and grabbed some 2,000 acres of land met his Waterloo in a reported gunfight with a joint force of police and RAB in the port city early Monday.The deceased, Akkas Ali, apparently used a political banner for personal

Kushtia: A suspected outlawed party leader was killed in a shootout between his associates and police at Khursha village in Mirpur upazila early Monday.The dead was identified as Siddiqur Rahman alias Siddique, 35, a commander of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML) and son of late Ismail

SIRAJGANJ: Two people were killed and four injured as an express train rammed into a three-wheeler, locally known as Nasimon, on the unmanned Ullapara level-crossing on Sunday night. Government Rail Police (GRP) sources and witnesses said the Dhaka-bound inter-city Padma Express crashed

DHAKA: Bangladesh is getting access to Global Agriculture and Food Security Trust Fund to draw aid from the multi-donor outlet for grants in developing the country’s agriculture and nutrition sectors.The United States Agency for International Development (USIAD) Sunday disclosed this